One day I will be as talented as Volodos .... So long as I consistently practise 20 hours a day and live to be 800 hundred years old, then I don't see why not!
Simon M simply not true. If we’re talking about practicing for a total of 666 years worth of life, than you’d have much MUCH more impeccable technique than Volodos. Now the musicality aspect wouldn’t simply develop just like that, but I’d you could keep the strong passion for music alive for 800 years, than you’d develop a much deeper understanding of music than anybody ever could. This is all stupid and theoretical ofcourse, but i will say that sleep may hold you back, but it’s not like anybody is living to 800 anyways. So let’s just assume 3 hours of sleep a night can keep you living injury free, than yes... I think you’d surpass Volodos light years on a technique standpoint.
Oliver Rodriguez Is it really even possible to have much better technique than Volodos? It's not like there is an infinite headroom for further improvement, certain limitations of human physiology will always limit what you can so.
Simon M I would agree. I don't think those circumstances would guarantee matching Volodos. If anything stood out in my +20 years as a pianoteacher it is TALANT. Hard work is crucial too but I've never seen it compensate for lack/medioker talant
@@SrtZipTop sorry but not true. Synapses in the brain are connected at a young age for piano so if you started slightly later it would never happen also perfect practice is required and latent talent
@DonFrankos your sooo right... i saw a live preformance of him in amsterdam.. it was soooo beautiful. and his encores where just amazing :O !! after concert he signed cd's and ive helt his right hand xD.. when he was done. i asked him if i could take a picture with him.. and i was actualy able to sit next to him :D :D !!. that was the greatest day in my life. for so far xD.
@@1YinYang1 you're joking, right? Lisitsa? He already listed actually, the best of the best. Maybe Zimerman and Argerich, but Volodos and Hamelin are the best, by far.
Not a chance, he is much more refined and has a deeper sense of melody and phrasing than cziffra. And his renditions of Brahms and Schubert's short pieces are the best we've heard since decades, pure finesse
Liszt is regarded as the worlds greatest piano virtuoso. Even his pupils who lived into the early 1900's and heard the current best pianists of that time still believed liszt could out do them all.
Entre tanta Barbarie el mundo se da el lujo de tener Volodos Baremboin Martha Argerich que contrapuntos¡¡¡Gracias al mundo del arte que nos estan salvando¡¡
A sensational and overwhelming interpretation of this rhapsody - highly emotional !! But the camera handling is a pain, showing the audience most the time instead of the hands of the Pianist !!
There is no greater virtuoso playing before the public today -- and I doubt if there ever has been in the past. There are several who compare favorably -- Stephen Hough, Dennis Matsuev, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Marc André Hamelin, Claire Huangsci (Her Prokofiev Toccata is far and away the most magnificent ever recorded). But VOLODOS is not only a virtuoso whose accomplishments excel those of Mr. Levhinne and Horowitz, he is also a MUSICIAN of impeccable taste and great character.
Nice, and Volodos is overwhelming, but lists are always incomplete and futile because too many contenders always get left out, Jorge Bolet and Alexis Weissenberg, for example. And the maestro of them all, the immortal SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF is rarely mentioned on greatest virtuosi lists!!!
Nice, and Volodos is overwhelming, but lists are always incomplete and futile because too many contenders always get left out, Jorge Bolet and Alexis Weissenberg, for example. And the maestro of them all, the immortal SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF is rarely mentioned on greatest virtuosi lists!!!
you doubt there ever has been a greater piano virtuoso in the past? Liszt, Beethoven, Anton Rubenstein, Cziffra, Art Tatum, the list goes on. Hamelin is far beyond Volodos technically, as is Yuja Wang. the greatest of all the pianists in the world are Kissin, Sokolov, Argerich, and Zimmerman. the reason they are superior to someone like Volodos is they don't just have the world class technical virtuosity, they can play very slow pieces with absolute perfect singing control, sonority, voice balance and orchestration. link me to one video of Volodos doing this... for someone like Kissin there are literally endless videos of him doing this. his control and precision makes Volodos look like a beginner
@@brianbernstein3826 Dumbest comment I ever read! Volodos plays slow pieces all the time. About 2 years ago I saw him and even talked with him. He said: I hate virtuosic music. All the early recordings were a request from manager and recording company. He is big fan of Shubert music and plays it super quietly and beautifully. It is a consensus of anyone who knows anything about playing piano that since Horowitz there was no pianist with such a beautiful pianissimo as Volodos.
Yes, these pianists are great and unbelievable!! But the truth is, since the recording area = evidence we can hear!! The most magnificient pianist is Keith Jarrett !!! Many Virtuoses have no doubt about it. There is non one ☝️☝️ of all these great modern pianists who was able to play the Sun Bear Concerts of Keith Jarrett. Also Glenn Gould said, Jarrett is the greatest Pianist ever
6:11 - 6:13 - Volodos is accepted to the Del Arte Italian theatre without any makup or masks! :D Indeed, a very powerful perfomance. He's a fury of perfect shaped steel boulders, while Hamelin is a whirl of thinnest pins...
Liszt was definitely as technically skilled as Volodos. How can I tell? I can tell because of the monstrously difficult things he wrote, because he traveled all around Europe playing these monstrously difficult works.
yes it is impossible to know unless the two were together, Hamelin has unbelievable technique and his pieces are phenomenally difficult i would put my money on him
Well yes, Hamelin is a great virtuoso as well. Hamelin's technique is second to none. He doesn't really move me that much though... I love Lipatti, Helena Czerny Stefanska, Ingrid Haebler, Lev Oborin, mostly all the pianists that have been dead for a long time...
Now that is a venue. Was that train in the back timed or did it really come just in time? because a few seconds earlier would have been a huge issue. Wish I could have been there.
***** Hamelin does not come a mile within Volodos. Volodos moves mountains with his fingerstrokes - Hamelin does not have the strength and speed to keep up with his unearthly virtuosity.
@principecalaf your right. cziffra is one of my favourite to :D you know his flight of the bumble bee ?? or tritsch tratch polka.. or blue danube? amazing xD
I was actually playing this piece today so I was keen to hear Volodos's interpretation - before realising that he was playing his own extra hot, super revved-up special edition. Not sure if he's published his arrangement. I'd be curious to read through it. Once maybe.
well, definitely, everyone would advice you changing fingers, mostly 321 I would say... But moreover, it's IMHO also about having the distal phalangs of your fingers under controle, like that that the last part of your fingers should still be firm, if you understand, what I'm trying to say :D Because in passages like this, fingers tend to lose controle of the distal part, so it becomes too free and the tones don't repeat..
It's an open air concert in the middle of the city. What would you expect ? This audience isn't classically trained. Volodos knew that very well himself.
In his time, Chopin, at his best, played to a select audience of princesses and countesses in a Paris salon, and that was exactly the right thing to do. God, how times have hanged! However you cut it, this is a great video, but, hell, it is still plenty weird...
good boy gypsy pianist best pianist always...i am sure if all gypsy musicians would have a piano to play on and practise a little from time to time theyd be quite quickly at that level of technique at piano as well no big problem for real gypsy them all magic cause of free mind not toomuch numbed by civilisation mud.
I agree with Volodos being a million times better than Lang Lang, and his technique being the best out there. but I absolutely disagree if you state that Volodos doesn´t play expressively, because you´ve obviously never heard him live, and you obviously have only heard him on youtube videos where they often post virtuoso pieces. search for Volodos playing Scriabin or tchaikovsky and reconsider what you said. the man can play so beautifully, it´s out of this world.
Liszt would be so proud
TOTALLY!!!!
Hello.
I like what he did with the piece, but some parts were eh.
OVER the TOP... like Liszt wasn't....
Franz Liszt is still alive?!?!?!?
P.S. I actually know that is just someone who named himself/ herself Franz Liszt on TH-cam
One day I will be as talented as Volodos .... So long as I consistently practise 20 hours a day and live to be 800 hundred years old, then I don't see why not!
Sorry, no. if your genes are not right at the start, you've no chance.
Simon M simply not true. If we’re talking about practicing for a total of 666 years worth of life, than you’d have much MUCH more impeccable technique than Volodos. Now the musicality aspect wouldn’t simply develop just like that, but I’d you could keep the strong passion for music alive for 800 years, than you’d develop a much deeper understanding of music than anybody ever could. This is all stupid and theoretical ofcourse, but i will say that sleep may hold you back, but it’s not like anybody is living to 800 anyways. So let’s just assume 3 hours of sleep a night can keep you living injury free, than yes... I think you’d surpass Volodos light years on a technique standpoint.
Oliver Rodriguez Is it really even possible to have much better technique than Volodos? It's not like there is an infinite headroom for further improvement, certain limitations of human physiology will always limit what you can so.
Simon M I would agree. I don't think those circumstances would guarantee matching Volodos. If anything stood out in my +20 years as a pianoteacher it is TALANT. Hard work is crucial too but I've never seen it compensate for lack/medioker talant
@@SrtZipTop sorry but not true. Synapses in the brain are connected at a young age for piano so if you started slightly later it would never happen also perfect practice is required and latent talent
I think he's hit every note on that piano...... amazing
No he had a couple of hiccups but for some that can't hear it, they won't. But that's what makes a great pianist!
I can’t believe what I’ve just heard highly emotional with one of the top regarding technique. Totally overwhelming and awe inspiring.
Always end up coming back to this video. What a performance, really spectacular. Such a great technique.
Until now, this particular transcription and performance of the rhapsody never fails to give me goosebumps.
Absolutely astounding 😲
it is a miracle that nobody in the crowd died when he played this piece
I saw him play in Carnegie Hall, and I have never forgotten that performance. He was amazing!
This song maximizes virtuosity to the max level on the piano no other instrument on Earth can compete
Song? What song?
Song? What song?
@@jponz85 title of the video
@Shocklomania Musical Astounder bro, it's not a "song". Do you hear anyone singing? It's a "peice" of music, not a song.
@@jponz85 peice? What peice?
(will accept the typo xD)
@DonFrankos
your sooo right... i saw a live preformance of him in amsterdam.. it was soooo beautiful. and his encores where just amazing :O !!
after concert he signed cd's and ive helt his right hand xD.. when he was done. i asked him if i could take a picture with him.. and i was actualy able to sit next to him :D :D !!. that was the greatest day in my life. for so far xD.
Hungarian rhapsody 2,6,13 are the best ones
12 deserves a spot on that list.
2,6,12and13
I love no. 5.. So emotional and dark
@@fardpig4269 r/notliketheotherclassicalmusicians
2,3,5,6,12,13,15 !!!
Holy moly.. Vorodos is the world best player.. I need his hands !
I like how some of the clueless audience members were clapping between his playing😂
@Schrøender no?
@Schrøender I was asking the same thing.
@mago lmfao
@@finderrio Yes you can hear some people clapping at exactly 4:30
@@SeigneurReefShark Hi
Amazing technique and musicality. Amongst the bests of the bests (Horowitz, Kissin, Hamelin, Berezovsky). Bravo.
Kissin? Maybe Lisitsa!
1º Cziffra
Ure so idiot that mentioned all those pianists but never heard of Cziffra? Fk ignorant
@@1YinYang1 lisitsa? Maybe argerich!
@@1YinYang1 you're joking, right? Lisitsa? He already listed actually, the best of the best. Maybe Zimerman and Argerich, but Volodos and Hamelin are the best, by far.
5:57 that face “F this shit” lol
After listening this genious arrangement, can we assert that Volodos is a XXI century Cziffra?
He could have been...sadly last 10 yrs he bored me away with Schubert all day long. Waste of his talent..
@@pianosenzanima1 he has played Scriabin, Mompou, Rach and Liszt in this time. As well as some Beethoven. Look around a bit more.
Not a chance, he is much more refined and has a deeper sense of melody and phrasing than cziffra.
And his renditions of Brahms and Schubert's short pieces are the best we've heard since decades, pure finesse
I would pay 💰 to watch his concerts anytime
Probably better than cziffra
This guy's playing reminds me very much of Cziffra...
Yes, indeed...hes the only one who comes close since Cziffra.
Actually he is his own, if comparable, maybe a perfect fusion of Cziffra and Horowitz.
I like to think of him as Volodos.
@@robert982 He is the very opposite of Horowitz.
@@robert982 Can't agree more ! Volodos = Horowitz (imagination) + Cziffra (flexibility) ! 😆
Liszt is regarded as the worlds greatest piano virtuoso. Even his pupils who lived into the early 1900's and heard the current best pianists of that time still believed liszt could out do them all.
Such a shame they haven't lived long enough to witness this performance...
Would be nice to see both volodos and liszt go at it lol
Liszt would have found this very amusing. Incredible !
super respect!!!!!
Absolutely mind-blowing! What a performance!!!!!
So Liszt DID have a
second life!!!
This is the pinnacle of performance in my opinion. He was at an absolute peak here, and he was IN THE ZONE
Truly a stupendous performance.
Too bad he’s done nothing greater since then
@@aaronslens How would he if he was at his peak during this recording?
And also it’s not exactly easy to top this 🤣
@@Ace-dv5ce he hasn’t created any new transcriptions or recorded anything as technically difficult since then. Just Brahms and Schubert
@@aaronslens damn
Entre tanta Barbarie el mundo se da el lujo de tener Volodos Baremboin Martha Argerich que contrapuntos¡¡¡Gracias al mundo del arte que nos estan salvando¡¡
Liszt would definitely approve
A sensational and overwhelming interpretation of this rhapsody - highly emotional !! But the camera handling is a pain, showing the audience most the time instead of the hands of the Pianist !!
Incredible amazing!
Perfect technique! Unbelievable..
you can actually see how the guy at 5:20 's life is changing with this performance
indeed it was…
lmao
🗿
3:03 when your center stage like this. You've made it.
Volodos is the master of Liszt. he makes it looks like his warm up routine....
hes what you call super virtuoso
Transcendental pianism at its finest.
Este señor viene el 1 de junio del 2025...interpretando esta misma obra en Valencia!!!
There is no greater virtuoso playing before the public today -- and I doubt if there ever has been in the past. There are several who compare favorably -- Stephen Hough, Dennis Matsuev, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, Yuja Wang, Marc André Hamelin, Claire Huangsci (Her Prokofiev Toccata is far and away the most magnificent ever recorded).
But VOLODOS is not only a virtuoso whose accomplishments excel those of Mr. Levhinne and Horowitz, he is also a MUSICIAN of impeccable taste and great character.
Nice, and Volodos is
overwhelming, but
lists are always incomplete and futile
because too many
contenders always
get left out, Jorge Bolet and Alexis Weissenberg, for
example. And the maestro of them
all, the immortal SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF
is rarely mentioned on greatest virtuosi
lists!!!
Nice, and Volodos is
overwhelming, but
lists are always incomplete and futile
because too many
contenders always
get left out, Jorge Bolet and Alexis Weissenberg, for
example. And the maestro of them
all, the immortal SERGEI VASSILIEVITCH RACHMANINOFF
is rarely mentioned on greatest virtuosi
lists!!!
you doubt there ever has been a greater piano virtuoso in the past? Liszt, Beethoven, Anton Rubenstein, Cziffra, Art Tatum, the list goes on. Hamelin is far beyond Volodos technically, as is Yuja Wang. the greatest of all the pianists in the world are Kissin, Sokolov, Argerich, and Zimmerman. the reason they are superior to someone like Volodos is they don't just have the world class technical virtuosity, they can play very slow pieces with absolute perfect singing control, sonority, voice balance and orchestration. link me to one video of Volodos doing this... for someone like Kissin there are literally endless videos of him doing this. his control and precision makes Volodos look like a beginner
@@brianbernstein3826
Dumbest comment I ever read! Volodos plays slow pieces all the time. About 2 years ago I saw him and even talked with him. He said: I hate virtuosic music. All the early recordings were a request from manager and recording company. He is big fan of Shubert music and plays it super quietly and beautifully. It is a consensus of anyone who knows anything about playing piano that since Horowitz there was no pianist with such a beautiful pianissimo as Volodos.
Yes, these pianists are great and unbelievable!! But the truth is, since the recording area = evidence we can hear!! The most magnificient pianist is Keith Jarrett !!! Many Virtuoses have no doubt about it. There is non one ☝️☝️ of all these great modern pianists who was able to play the Sun Bear Concerts of Keith Jarrett. Also Glenn Gould said, Jarrett is the greatest Pianist ever
And my face just melted off....
Gracias Volodos gracias bellisimo
6:11 - 6:13 - Volodos is accepted to the Del Arte Italian theatre without any makup or masks! :D
Indeed, a very powerful perfomance. He's a fury of perfect shaped steel boulders, while Hamelin is a whirl of thinnest pins...
6:04 was he confused whether to play the cadenza of 1st mvt of Rach 3 or Liszt's? lol
I like your ancestor's
violin concerti!!!
5:48-6:36 my favorite part
Мне кажется, что он очень скромный, честный и добрый парень, настоящий Труженик и Христианин.
И это помимо очевидного для всех музыкального Гения!❤
El SR Volodos. gran interprte de Franzs. 💞🇮🇷🙏.
4:29 Friska, you're welcome
I like the chair he's sitting on
I love the ground the chair's placed on
You should focus on how black the piano is.
Liszt was definitely as technically skilled as Volodos. How can I tell? I can tell because of the monstrously difficult things he wrote, because he traveled all around Europe playing these monstrously difficult works.
And he was a gifted sight reader as well.
That smile though 6:11
Ikr
I smiled too when it got to that major key part after the minor/diminished run. Perfect resolution to that section
I thought he was gritting his teeth, that part is a lot of work.
Justin Holinski My favorite part. I feel so high when I hear it 😌
Angelo B. Same here
extraordinaria seleção e Volodos sem duvida nos embriaga
4:55 that kid probably doesn’t want to be there 🤣
Liszt Came Back Alive!
pianotalent, I never died...
liszt was a genious!!
Bravo Volodos!
yes it is impossible to know unless the two were together, Hamelin has unbelievable technique and his pieces are phenomenally difficult i would put my money on him
Hamelin plays the easier version though
Minus the stage charisma of Volodos.
Why on earth is everyone still talking?
How can you sit still when you hear/see this?
Well yes, Hamelin is a great virtuoso as well. Hamelin's technique is second to none. He doesn't really move me that much though...
I love Lipatti, Helena Czerny Stefanska, Ingrid Haebler, Lev Oborin, mostly all the pianists that have been dead for a long time...
Que genial
Bravo
"Holly Cow !!!"
Now that is a venue. Was that train in the back timed or did it really come just in time? because a few seconds earlier would have been a huge issue. Wish I could have been there.
Guys imagine Horowitz and Volodos played together
Respect
Hamelin and Volodos...
pbotmeyertron Volodos's technique is much better than Hamelin.They are not in the same level.
林品瀚 Are you joking? Volodos has exceptional technique but Hamlein roasts him
+man7889 This "roasting" is as non-existent as "Hamlein." Volodos #1.
***** Hamelin does not come a mile within Volodos. Volodos moves mountains with his fingerstrokes - Hamelin does not have the strength and speed to keep up with his unearthly virtuosity.
Ok.
Legendary
@principecalaf
your right. cziffra is one of my favourite to :D
you know his flight of the bumble bee ?? or tritsch tratch polka.. or blue danube?
amazing xD
ermmm Hamelin is a supervirtuoso the pieces he plays make this easy but volodos is great i agree with your list with the exception of wang
number one in the world
I was actually playing this piece today so I was keen to hear Volodos's interpretation - before realising that he was playing his own extra hot, super revved-up special edition. Not sure if he's published his arrangement. I'd be curious to read through it. Once maybe.
Volodos and Liszt in the same sentence? Are you trying to summon demons?
4:30 for the good part
maggot1111666 exactly
Conoce a Franzs Lizst. Sabe 🤣 lo que interpreta. 💞🇮🇷🙏😍 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
Does anyone know a good fingering for passages like the one at 5:18? Thanks
well, definitely, everyone would advice you changing fingers, mostly 321 I would say... But moreover, it's IMHO also about having the distal phalangs of your fingers under controle, like that that the last part of your fingers should still be firm, if you understand, what I'm trying to say :D Because in passages like this, fingers tend to lose controle of the distal part, so it becomes too free and the tones don't repeat..
4:30 - 4:31 - a great SHAME to the spectators for the epic fail. Go study etiquette books. =p
It's an open air concert in the middle of the city. What would you expect ? This audience isn't classically trained. Volodos knew that very well himself.
My gay son just came while listening to this masterpiece ❤❤
What 😂
@principecalaf i dont think that.. i think volodos has a greater technique.
but hamelin is one of my favourites to :). he plays alkan superb !
後半フリシュカはかなり手が加わっていて、原曲を大きく上回る鋭く華やかなメカニックを披露するものとなっている。
🎉🎉
In his time, Chopin, at his best, played to a select audience of princesses and countesses in a Paris salon, and that was exactly the right thing to do. God, how times have hanged! However you cut it, this is a great video, but, hell, it is still plenty weird...
4:20 thank me later
I'm high now
Ouch
nice
Sound like sarasate
Storica!!
@afertyus1000
i know hamelin.. i dont know if thats true. but one things for sure. there both fantastic
6:12 The camera pans to his face, because the site of his fingers at that particular moment would make everyones' head explode.
He has the ability to do so though. If his repertoire had more variety, you'd weep at every performance.
3:12 chillaaaa boat!
2:50 - end
!!!!!
Astounding!!!!!
I played this in an Israeli competition few years ago and took first in my category 🙋🏻♂️ great piece for competitions
はいはい🥱
Rousseau still hiding
How did you find this video? May it be possible to find it in a better quality? Thanks, this is a legendary recording.
good boy gypsy pianist best pianist always...i am sure if all gypsy musicians would have a piano to play on and practise a little from time to time theyd be quite quickly at that level of technique at piano as well no big problem for real gypsy them all magic cause of free mind not toomuch numbed by civilisation mud.
5:44～6:13は猛烈な核分裂にも比すべき圧倒的迫力であり、頭のおかしいのは演奏者なのか聴衆なのかわからなくするような作為的見せ場となっている。そのうえこの巨漢が音がでかいだけでなく、おそろしく指が回るのも驚嘆させられる。
@principecalaf Marc-Andre is just AMAZING.....but i think volodos has more accuracy, he alwais plays clean...but W T HELL....both are huges
Did anyone clock the beginning of Allegro Molto Vivace From Zigeunerweisen, Op. 20 at 4:30?
I agree with Volodos being a million times better than Lang Lang, and his technique being the best out there. but I absolutely disagree if you state that Volodos doesn´t play expressively, because you´ve obviously never heard him live, and you obviously have only heard him on youtube videos where they often post virtuoso pieces. search for Volodos playing Scriabin or tchaikovsky and reconsider what you said. the man can play so beautifully, it´s out of this world.
5:48
6:10
5 stars is not enough
Is very impegnatife
@principecalaf hamelin does have good technique but some times he's too mellow with some pieces that beg for virtuousi power and stamina.
Elon Musk at 1:40 !!